Tinseltown is up to its old tricks. In hopes of Oscar glory, Hollywood is saving some of its biggest movies for the year's final weeks. Yet these titles, stars and subjects do raise expectations that, after a disappointing summer, some memorable movies...

'The Host' Rating: PG-13 for some sensuality and violence Summary: Aliens take over human bodies, but one human "host's" mind survives this invasion. Kid attractor: Aliens, humans fighting them and young people in love, written by the author of...

'The Croods Rating: PG for some scary action Summary: A cowering family of cave men and women have to trek cross-country to safety when earthquakes destroy their home cave. Kid attractor: Wisecracking cave people, 3-D animation, funny animals. Good/bad...

Aug. 31THE DEBT (Focus): Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds and Sam Worthington star in this remake of an award-winning Israeli thriller about a retired Mossad assassination team that has to revisit its biggest failure when a man...

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a Swedish punk deus ex machina. Pierced all over, jet black hair and coal black eyes, Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) is the sort of rebel any reporter would in his or her corner. dragonThe movie named for her, a Swedish...

“The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story” has lots of what you want, if you want something grindingly familiar. It’s full of prettily photographed brutality, most of it in the neighborhood of Claire Foy, the latest screen incarnation of...

Claire Foy says the controversy over her pay for the Netflix series "The Crown" has changed her approach to Hollywood.
"It definitely opened my eyes to a lot. And I certainly won't be naïve about those things," Foy said in an interview on Monday in Las...

The 2017-18 Holiday Movie Preview is a glimpse at the films opening through mid-January. Release dates and other details are subject to change.
Nov. 10
Amanda & Jack Go Glamping
Romantic comedy about a writer and his wife trying to jump-start their...

Director Michael Apted has been making films since 1963: documentaries, TV series, Bond films, thrillers, fantasies. His skill is chameleon-like; his ease with a variety of genres obvious. We're in steady, good hands for the juicy terrorism thriller...

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, who starred in the original “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” films and often played villains in Hollywood movies like “John Wick” has died. Nyqvist's representative Jenny Tversky said Tuesday that he died after a...

Despite the English roots and fanciful narratives of the filmmaker being honored, presenters doling out the praise for director Ridley Scott at the 30th American Cinematheque Award ceremony couldn’t pass up the opportunity to crack jokes at the current...

Part serial-killer thriller, part old-school anti-Soviet propaganda, "Child 44" plays like a curious relic of an earlier Cold War mindset, when Western audiences took comfort that they were living on the right side of the Iron Curtain and relied on movies...

"Furious 7" is not going to run out of gas at the box office any time soon.
Going into its third weekend, the action film is expected to add $30 million to $35 million to its robust domestic haul of $259.5 million, according to people familiar with...